Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low-latency speech separation
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Application No.: US16376325Application Date: 2019-04-05
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Publication No.: US10856076B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: Zhuo Chen , Changliang Liu , Takuya Yoshioka , Xiong Xiao , Hakan Erdogan , Dimitrios Basile Dimitriadis
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC
- Main IPC: H04R3/00
- IPC: H04R3/00 ; G10L25/30 ; H04R1/40

Abstract:
A system and method include reception of a first plurality of audio signals, generation of a second plurality of beamformed audio signals based on the first plurality of audio signals, each of the second plurality of beamformed audio signals associated with a respective one of a second plurality of beamformer directions, generation of a first TF mask for a first output channel based on the first plurality of audio signals, determination of a first beamformer direction associated with a first target sound source based on the first TF mask, generation of first features based on the first beamformer direction and the first plurality of audio signals, determination of a second TF mask based on the first features, and application of the second TF mask to one of the second plurality of beamformed audio signals associated with the first beamformer direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200322722A1 LOW-LATENCY SPEECH SEPARATION Public/Granted day:2020-10-08
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